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Frequently Asked Questions
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1. Setting Up Portfolios |
1.1 How do I Create a portfolio on Morningstar.com.au? |
1.2 Can I Import my portfolio from other programs? How? |
1.3 What is the difference between a Transaction Portfolio and a Watch List? |
1.4 How many Transaction Portfolios or Watch Lists can I create? |
1.5 How many Holdings can I have in a portfolio? |
1.6 What Securities does Portfolio Manager support? |
2. Manage Portfolios |
2.1 Can I Combine more than one portfolio that I've already saved? |
2.2 How do I Remove a saved portfolio or watch list from Morningstar.com.au? |
2.3 How do I Convert my Transaction Portfolio to a Watch list? |
2.4 How do I Convert my Watch list to a Transaction Portfolio? |
2.5 What happened to my portfolio? I saved it, and now I can't find it? |
2.6 How do I Edit a portfolio I've created and saved? |
3. Using Portfolios |
3.1 How do I Add a holding to my existing portfolio? |
3.2 How do I Remove holdings from a saved portfolio? |
3.3 How do I record a Buy or Sell in my existing portfolio? |
3.4 Can I add Notes to my portfolio holdings? |
3.5 How do I change my Custom View in Portfolio? |
3.6 How do I record stock Splits in my portfolio? |
3.7 How do I record Dividend Distributions that I've Reinvested in my portfolio? |
3.8 How do I record Dividend Distributions that I've received as Cash? |
3.9 How do I Print from the Portfolio Manager? |
3.10 Can I Export my portfolio from Morningstar.com.au? How? |
4. Miscellaneous |
4.1 What's the difference between the Total Return and Personal Return? |
4.2 Why don't some of my holdings show up when I X-Ray my portfolio? They were there before |
4.3 Why is the Portfolio X-Ray incomplete for my portfolio? |
4.4 How do I use the Cash Management feature? |
4.5 Why are some of my holdings showing up in my portfolio twice? |
4.6 What information does Morningstar.com.au encrypt? |
1. Setting Up Portfolios |
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1.1 How do I create a portfolio on Morningstar.com.au? |
Here are instructions on how to create a portfolio:
If you wish to create a new portfolio using the Import Portfolio function, please see: |
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1.2 Can I import my portfolio from other programs? How? |
Importing from File
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If you have brokerage data in a format we do not support, please contact Support and we will work on adding that format in the future. |
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1.3 What is the difference between a Transaction Portfolio and a Watch List? |
A Transaction Portfolio contains detailed data on holdings including purchase Date, Quantity purchased, Price and allows for transaction based tracking and analysis. A Watch List can be used to track securities of interest and requires the user to enter Security and Quantity information. |
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1.4 How many Transaction Portfolios or Watch Lists can I create? |
You can store up to 10 of each in Portfolio Manager. |
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1.5 How many holdings can I have in a portfolio? |
At this time, registered members can enter 100 securities (stocks, funds, ETFs, hybrids, LICs and warrants) and 20 Cash holdings making the overall potential number of holdings a total of 120 per portfolio. Premium members can enter 200 securities and 40 Cash holdings making the overall potential number of holdings a total of 240 per portfolio. |
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1.6 What securities does Portfolio Manager support? |
Portfolio Manager supports stocks, funds, ETFs, hybrids, LICs and warrants. |
2. Manage Portfolios |
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2.1 Can I combine more than one portfolio that I've already saved? |
Of course. To do this, please follow the steps below:.
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Please be aware that any changes made to this new portfolio WILL NOT affect the original portfolios that you combined. |
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2.2 How do I remove a saved portfolio or watch list from Morningstar.com.au? |
To do this, please follow the steps below.
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2.3 How do I convert my Transaction Portfolio to a Watch list? |
To copy your Transaction Portfolio to a Watch list, follow the steps below:
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2.4 How do I convert my Watch list to a Transaction Portfolio? |
To copy your Watch list to a Transaction Portfolio, follow the steps below:
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2.5 What happened to my portfolio? I saved it, and now I can't find it |
Here is the most common reason that this happens: Are you trying to access your portfolio through a bookmark or favourites tab? If you are, please make sure the bookmark or favourites is saved at http://www.morningstar.com.au and not the portfolio page. Whenever changes are made to the Portfolio Manager, your portfolio will be assigned a new URL, therefore, you will have problems trying to access your portfolio. If this is the case, please go to the home page and bookmark it here. Next, click on the Portfolio tab to access your portfolio. Have you created a second membership? We have found that, rather than change the street or e-mail address on their accounts, many customers will create a brand new free account with us, and will then be confused about which account contains the portfolios they saved. To avoid this, make sure you only sign up for one account, and use the Membership area of the site to update contact information. If this is not the case, and you are still unable to access your portfolio, please contact Support. Please include in your message a description of the steps you are taking and what occurs. Also, please let us know the type of computer, operating system, modem speed, browser, and browser version you are using. With this additional information, we will be able to assist you more quickly. |
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2.6 How do I edit a portfolio I've created and saved? |
Please follow the steps below to make this change to your portfolio:
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3. Using Portfolios |
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3.1 How do I add a holding to my existing transaction-based portfolio? |
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3.2 How do I remove holdings from a saved portfolio? |
To delete a holding in a Transaction Portfolio, please follow these instructions:
For Watch Lists:
For Transaction Portfolios:
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3.3 How do I record a buy or sell in my existing transaction portfolio? |
Here are directions for adding additional Buys or Sells to your portfolio: From the drop-down menu, choose the portfolio you wish to edit.
Alternative method for buying or selling a security in an existing portfolio:
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3.4 Can I add notes to my portfolio holdings? |
Yes, you can add note to your portfolio holdings.
Use the same directions to view your notes. Or in My View, you can add a column to display all notes on a portfolio. Follow the instructions under How do I change my custom view in Portfolio? to add My Notes on Holdings to your Custom View. |
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3.5 How do I change my Custom View in Portfolio? |
Please follow these steps:
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3.6 How do I record stock splits in my portfolio? |
Stock Splits can be added to Transaction Portfolios but not Watch Lists.
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3.7 How do I record dividend distributions that I've reinvested in my portfolio? |
Dividends can be added to Transaction Portfolios but not Watch Lists.
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3.8 How do I record dividend distributions that I've received as cash? |
You can elect to receive distributions and dividends as cash when you enable Trach Cash Flows. To enable Track Cash see 4.4 How do i use the cash management feature?
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3.9 How do I print from the Portfolio Manager? |
One-click functionality allows you to print from all your views pages. The Fundamental, Insights, My View, Portfolio X-Ray and Reports views are available to Premium customers only.
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3.10 Can I export my portfolio from Morningstar.com.au? How? |
We currently have the capability to export your portfolio from Morningstar.com.au to use the data in desktop software or spreadsheet programs. You can export from the Tracking view, Custom Views and Reports.
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4. Miscellaneous |
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4.1 What's the difference between the Total Return and Personal Return? |
There are performance measures for different purposes from which we should expect to yield different results: Total Return Personal Return |
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4.2 Why don't some of my holdings show up when I X-Ray my portfolio? They were there before |
This is occurring because the Portfolio X-Ray feature will not display portfolio statistics for managed funds or Listed Investment Companies (LICs) with statistics more than 1 year old. This is a restriction set in place by our portfolio manager team. This restriction exists because that team feels statistics generated from a portfolio more than a year old are no longer valid. Fund Reports do not have this restriction because the portfolio " as-of" date is always shown along with the portfolio stats and portfolio holdings on these pages. |
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4.3 Why is the Portfolio X-Ray incomplete for my portfolio? |
By any chance, did you create a Watch List? On the site, there are two types of portfolios: Watch List and Portfolio. With a Watch List you can add a security to a portfolio without entering prices or number of shares. However, if you create a Watch List and do not enter in prices or number of shares for your holdings, the results of the Portfolio X-Ray will be incomplete. Please note, the only information that will be included will be the top holdings. |
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4.4 How do I use the cash management feature? |
Portfolio Manager enables you to track cash flows when you Buy or Sell a security or receive a cash dividend. This functionality is available for Transaction Portfolios only. Enabling the Cash Management functionality The last column is titled Track Cash Flows. Next to each portfolio you will see a default setting of Disabled. Click on it once and this setting will change to Enabled. Now you have enabled cash management feature. Once you return to your portfolio, you will see Default Cash. It will be negative as it will take into account all the previous transactions you have made, i.e., it will mirror the total amount of cash you spent when you purchased your holdings. Create Additional Cash Accounts Go to Cash tab and enter the name of the cash account you wish to create and the total amount of money you want to deposit in this particular account. Click Save at the bottom of the page and you will return to your portfolio. Deposit or Withdraw Cash from your Cash Account Choose Deposit or Withdraw from the Transaction Type drop down box and enter the amount. Press Save and you will return to your portfolio. Add dividend cash distribution to any of your cash accounts Then go to Dividends/Reinvest Div. tab. Under Transaction Type column, select a cash account from the drop down menu in which you wish the dividend to be deposited. Enter the distribution date and total amount in the next two columns. Then click on Save and you will return to your portfolio. You can verify this transaction by hovering the mouse over the appropriate cash account and clicking Edit. Since transactions are listed in reverse chronological order (most recent first), you will see a deposit of the exact amount of cash dividend you received. |
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4.5 Why are some of my holdings showing up in my portfolio twice? |
It is possible that this occurred when the holdings were entered. When you clicked Save Portfolio, you may have received a message stating:
If you clicked the Back button on your browser after seeing this message instead of clicking Continue, your portfolio holdings will be entered twice. When you first click Save Portfolio and get the message, the current holdings have already been saved. So if you click the Back button on your browser to make changes and click Save Portfolio again, the holdings are saved twice. To delete the duplicated holdings, please follow the steps below. For Watch List portfolios:
For Transaction portfolios:
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4.6 What information does Morningstar.com.au encrypt? |
The editors and programmers for Morningstar.com.au are aware of the sensitive issues surrounding web site privacy and security. In an effort to make the site as useful and secure as possible, strict security measures have been adopted to protect credit card and portfolio transactions. Morningstar uses encryption technology for the credit card information provided by users upon subscription payment. Portfolios are not encrypted, but we do store them on a secure server behind a firewall. Morningstar has chosen not to encrypt the portfolios because doing so would significantly slow the transmission speeds. In most cases, users are more concerned about the speed of accessing their updated portfolio than the unlikely chance that someone will intercept that information. In addition, if someone were to access your portfolios they would have no way of knowing if the portfolios are real, accurate, hypothetical, or simply a watch list. |
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